Patois Crossword

Mini · Easy · No. 30:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Easy · No. 3

An easy mini Patois crossword with 8 clues. Every answer is a real Jamaican Patois word from the dictionary, and each links to its entry when you finish. Easy: The most familiar words. Meanings come with a category, every word starts with its first letter filled in, and you can check and reveal.

Across

  1. 1 Money, Work & Business: A con man and the con itself — a trickster (6)
  2. 4 Food & Drink: A leafy green vegetable (8)
  3. 5 Food & Drink: The sapodilla — a small, round, rough brown-skinned fruit with sweet, soft, grainy brown flesh (9)
  4. 7 Places & Directions: A drainage ____ or ditch — and, by extension, the poor inner-city neighbourhoods (5)

Down

  1. 1 Money, Work & Business: A small amount of money (6)
  2. 2 People & Relationships: A child — whether one's own or any young person (7)
  3. 3 Food & Drink: A deep-red drink brewed from the dried calyces (6)
  4. 6 Descriptions & Emotions: To break — but reaching far beyond the plain sense (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, People & Relationships, Places & Directions. When you finish, each answer shows its meaning, its pronunciation and an example sentence.

The number in brackets after a clue is the length of the answer, and (3,5) means two words of three and five letters, typed with no space. Patois has no single spelling, so if you type another spelling the dictionary records, it counts.

More to play

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